Sunday, December 13, 2009

Amazon Mechanical Turk Perl Library Error

I've been playing with Amazon Mechanical Turk for a project, and I think it's really, really powerful. So far, I've done a bunch of research and some tests using the Requester UI, but have not yet dug into the API. But, over the past few days, I've finally started my research and experimenation using the API directly. However, my very first time trying to use the modules that Amazon published, I got a big error:

If you want to try to get those to verify, you must make a file named mturk.properties in the current directory. In that file, you must list your access key and secret key as well as the turk service URL and API version you are using. Here are the sample contents:

4 comments:

I saw your patch and applied it along with patches in RT. There's now an unauthorized release of the module in my author directory (BDFOY). I'll work to make this an official release after I see the CPAN Testers reports.